Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 220

He told how she had even wished to pay him with her own money for learning to play it for her.

Who acts: Wilhelm, MIGNON, own money · What happens: tell, wish, pay, learn, play · To what, where: Wilhelm, money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wilhelm, MIGNON, own money), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 wished	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wished	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wished	aux
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 wished	advmod
7	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pay	mark
9	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wished	xcomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pay	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 money	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 money	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 money	amod
14	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pay	obl
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 learning	mark
16	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 money	acl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 play	mark
18	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 learning	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 play	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 play	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Wilhelm			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wish	past · perfect	MIGNON			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	pay not said to happen	to-infinitive	MIGNON not said here	Wilhelm	with MIGNON's own money	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset
4	learn	gerund	MIGNON's own money not said here			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	play	to-infinitive	MIGNON's own money not said here	money	for MIGNON	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent it=Theme for she=Eventuality

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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